Nereida Moreno

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Urbana police are searching for at least five suspects who reportedly shot two people and robbed two others early Sunday morning after they were turned away from a house party near the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, authorities said. More than 200 people were attending a house...

Ariana Romero’s immigration protections expired in August, a week before President Donald Trump moved to end DACA, the program that shields young people who came to the country illegally as minors. But now, the 29-year-old is scrambling to collect $495 to renew her two-year work permit. A federal...

State Rep. Jeanne Ives joined a crowd of anti-abortion advocates Sunday to criticize Gov. Bruce Rauner for signing into law a bill that expands taxpayer-subsidized abortions for women covered by Medicaid and state employee group health insurance. Ives, who is challenging Rauner in the March primary,...

Zwamy Vazquez came to the U.S. illegally when she was 3, but she doesn’t live in the shadows. The 23-year-old college student obtained a work permit through an Obama-era program that shields undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children. She interns in the Social Services...

A "flash over" sent flames over firefighters at a home on the West Side Monday, prompting an emergency mayday call to make sure everyone was accounted for, officials said. One firefighter was missing for several minutes but finally walked out of the home in the 4800 block Van Buren Street and went...

A 63-year-old woman was left “bloody and battered” after a neighbor broke a bottle over her head during a home invasion, prosecutors said Sunday. Derdra Brown, 57, and Willie Polk, 49, allegedly forced their way into an apartment near the 1500 block of North Sedgwick Street in Old Town on Friday...

Thousands of Chicago area homeowners hurried Thursday to prepay their property taxes before the federal tax code changes Jan. 1, with Cook County residents confident that the tax deduction strategy will work for them but those in the collar counties somewhat less certain. The new federal tax law...

Jeffery Daniels left his native Peru in 2001, moved to the U.S., married and started a family, leaving behind the elite Catholic society he’d spent years with for a life in the quiet north Chicago suburb of Antioch. Now, in the wake of an explosive report issued earlier this year, Peruvian prosecutors...